Privacy Fixes For Your Facebook Newsfeed

Facebook does not like the status quo for long. In fact, the social media giant constantly changes its features to ensure users receive all of the benefits from interacting with the world. One of the most popular features offered by Facebook is News Feed, which involves the constant updating of news stories on your Facebook home page. Facebook News Feed includes photos, videos, links, and likes from readers. However, News Feed also includes vulnerability to your online privacy.

Here are some privacy fixes for your Facebook News Feed that you should make right now.

Make Privacy Checkup Part of Your Daily Life

Facebook makes it easier than ever for you to examine the type of information you share, who reads your posts, and how Facebook collects data that concerns you. You should refer to Facebook’s Privacy Checkup, a helpful guide that provides a list of diagnostic recommendations that allow you to enhance your Facebook privacy. Privacy Checkup now includes measures to bolster News Feed privacy.

Remove Your Virtual Footprint

You should treat Facebook News Feed as hunters treat their tracks in the wilderness. Opt out of the tracking cookies by enrolling with the Digital Advertising Alliance (DDA). Opting out of cookies eliminates the chances of Facebook following you around to your preferred news sites. It may take DDA some time to process your request due to the recent influx of requests for the popular privacy option.

Remove Advertisement Preferences

In one of several ways that Facebook makes money off you, the company displays advertisements in your News Feed. You can control how Facebook uses your personal information to target ads. Whenever you notice that Facebook displays an ad in your News Feed, click the small gray drop-down arrow that sits to the top right of the advertisement. The drop-down arrow unveils the why and how the ad came to appear on your News Feed. You then have the chance to manage your ad preferences, including requesting that Facebook refrain from showing you any ads at all.

Use Timeline Review to Fix Your News Feed Privacy

Timeline review allows you to un-tag yourself by following a few simple steps that start by clicking the Settings tab. You then click the “Timeline and Tagging” tab to reach the “Review posts friends tag you in before they appear in your Timeline” section. Hit edit, make changes, and click the enabled box. Timeline Review puts you in control of how your friends tag you via the Facebook News Feed.

You do not have to implement every privacy measure that Facebook makes available for your News Feed. You may want to see some information that Facebook withholds from you. Control News Feed by navigating through the “Friends” tab until you access the “Add Close Friends” to set your friends preferences. Since Facebook has cracked down on News Feed spamming, you may be missing updates from your favorite local businesses. If that is the case, type in the business pages that you want to appear in your News Feed.

Make fixing your privacy issues on Facebook’s News Feed one of the most prior job of your daily life to secure your online privacy.